Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Furniture element carved in the round with the head of a roaring lion” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Furniture element carved in the round with the head of a roaring lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Crib of the Infant Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Card table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1745–50

Center table
Imperial Armory, Tula (south of Moscow), Russia · ca. 1780–85

Writing table (bureau plat)
Gilles Joubert · 1759

Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Settee
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema · ca. 1885

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Lupona (royal seat)
Ngongo ya Chintu, formerly known as the "Buli Master" · ca. 1840–1870

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Side table (one of a pair)
Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 1310 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:45 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.